''In addition to a wide variety of traditional oxygen transport topics, particular areas have been selected for emphasis at the 1997 meeting, which are: Molecular and genetic techniques to study oxygen transport in health and diseaseAngiogenesis during hypoxia, ischemia, and developmentPhysiological mechanisms of oxygen sensingPhysiological fluctuations of cerebral blood flow, metabolism and oxygenationNear infrared and phsophorescence techniques for the assessment of blood and tissue oxygenationAdvances in biotechnology of anticoagulants and blood substitutes.'' (excerpted from the Preface).
